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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1915
Page
4
Multiple residents and guests travel between Indianapolis Lafayette Crawfordsville Greencastle and Cloverdale with car trips and weekend visits. Local officials, church groups, and clubs hold meetings while funeral services, hospitalities, and social events unfold across Marion and surrounding townships through Sunday.
At a regular meeting the city school board considered the installation of a new heating and ventilation system for the high school. Bids were submitted Saturday but deemed too high, with no decision taken. The low bid from B S Eddy & Co of Indianapolis was 7264 dollars. The board planned further consideration or a possible re-bid.
Prosecutor Richard A. Werneke lay in critical condition at St. Anthony's Hospital after a noon Sunday fall down a steep embankment at the Shades of Death. He rolled about 100 feet and dropped 20 feet across a stream while helping a young woman cross Lovers' Gap. He suffered head bruises and body injuries. doctors planned X rays to assess skull fracture. The party left Terre Haute early Sunday for a day at Shades of Death, accompanied by Mrs Werneke, Leona Rausch, Margaret Wall, Mrs Hilton Redman, and chauffeur Frank Redman.
Several members of the Crawfords ville Golf Club will travel to Greencastle tomorrow to enter the Greencastle Golf Club tournament. About six to ten players are expected, with John Osborn detained after a farm escape charge. He was arrested Sunday on Belmont avenue by Bicyclemen Brady and Clary, found with liquor, and faces potential two to fourteen year prison terms for escaping from the state farm. He listed 749 Massachusetts avenue as his home and said he was sentenced April 19.
County commissioners may order mandamus proceedings to thrash out taxation case in court. Judge may decide to push the case to trial to resolve outstanding questions and determine proper tax assessments.
Public sentiment backs the Greencastle County Board of Review which placed eight DePauw University fraternities on tax roles. Officials may seek mandamus in Putnam Circuit Court to compel State Tax Commissioners to list properties for taxation, with assessed value totaling 36,600 dollars across Phi Delta Theta Phi Gamma Delta Sigma Phi Epsilon Delta Tau Delta Delta Upsilon Beta Theta Pi Phi Kappa Psi Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Dr W W Sweet of DePauw University acting as chaplain at the Michigan City Penitentiary brings home a convict written poem titled My Old Cob Pipe. The piece envisions a thought powered vehicle without wings or wheels, traveling from confinement to home in seconds aided by a corn cob pipe. It dates to April 1908 with issue number 3721-Armstrong.
Greencastle lodge No. 1077 holds its regular session Tuesday evening at 7 30 with E E Caldwell serving as secretary.
Mrs. E. G. Shouse and daughters Lois Margaret and son Dudley return to the city after a two weeks visit in Young America Indiana. Kate Gibson N G Dollier Caldwell R S also listed among lodge attendees for regu lar session.
Sheriff Theodore Bees faces a crowded county jail with eight escaped State Farm prisoners and two alleged horse thieves. He plans a fall clearance as court opens the first Monday in September. State Farm inmates await arraignment before Judge James P. Hughes and possible 2 to 5 year sentences to Michigan City State Prison.
City chief executive mayor pleads not guilty to hunting without a license. He will not announce his defense until trial and calls the charges false.
Mayor John J. Jones faces a hunting without license charge after arrest July 29. He plans to plead not guilty when trial opens Monday, employing G. S. Payne. Case moved from Esquire Grimes to Esquire James. bond posted at 100 dollars. Witnesses include a motorcyclist cited for license and ordinance violations on the farm near Van Cleave schoolhouse in a Jones & Urban project. Brazil News.
Ernest Sellers a painter in this city weds Miss Flossie Brown of Warren township in Indianapolis Sunday. They obtained a license from County Clerk Harry W Moore and wed at the groom’s brother Homer Sellers home. They will reside here.
The Greencastle Booster Club plans an automobile trip to the Reelsville ice cream festival at the Methodist church in Reelsville tomorrow evening. Weather is the only factor that could derail the event and at least 75 machines are expected. The local band will join the delegation to provide musical entertainment at the festival.
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